It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Chance favours a prepared mind.
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.